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Why Aapryl?

 
“90% of what passes for brilliance or incompetence in investing is the ebb and flow of investment style”

Jeremy Grantham

“90% of what passes for brilliance or incompetence in investing is the ebb and flow of investment style”

Jeremy Grantham

Because we can leverage your time, expertise and resources to improve performance by providing superior analytics that:

Are more predictive of future investment performance

Distinguish luck from skill and alpha from investment style

Calculate the factor betas endemic to a manager’s investment process

Produce refined factor-based peer groups that go beyond broad investment styles

Estimate alpha more accurately to improve portfolio optimization

Visually identify the best and worst market conditions for a manager product or composite portfolio

Common Measures of Skill Become Less Persistent Over Time

Aapryl’s Difference

Aapryl’s Perspective on a
Typical Manager’s Investment Process

Understanding a Manager’s Performance

Aapryl creates a “clone” portfolio which is an investable portfolio representing a manager’s style
Residual excess returns are dissected into separate components understand the manager’s performance
Manager return texture is analyzed by measuring consistency and magnitude of excess return
Stock selection and Style timing are graded and quantified for each manager
Predicted performance is forecasted through these processes

Adding more efficiency to the investment manager selection process by allowing users to:

  • Cut through large volumes of data to hone in on what’s truly important
  • Screen for top performing fund managers who are most likely to outperform so that duediligence time can be spent more efficiently
  • Create fund manager rankings based on predicted alpha so that deep dive due diligence is performed on the right managers
  • Visualize the texture of manager performance on custom charts and graphs
  • Run reports that provide insight into manager and portfolio performance